"It's legal, now what?" development, implementation, and evaluation of interdisciplinary cannabis education for healthcare trainees.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Healthcare professionals are motivated to improve their cannabis knowledge-yet few training opportunities exist. The unique legal status of cannabis, lack of rigorous research, and rapid expansion of consumer demand present challenges to the development and implementation of cannabis education for healthcare professionals and trainees. As a result, an alarming gap in quality of care is developing: health care professionals across disciplines lack the knowledge needed to counsel their patients, even as cannabis use rapidly accelerates.

Methods

We aimed to address the gap by developing and implementing an interprofessional cannabis training for healthcare trainees. Considering the challenges to development and implementation of cannabis training, we identified 4 imp

SUBMITTER: Cronin SP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12465847 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature